About the Center for Research on Health Care
Overview
The Center for Research on Health Care (CRHC) was created as a place where talented
investigators can transform ideas into feasible projects, work together in multidisciplinary
health services research teams, establish a broad-based research agenda, and train
leaders and investigators in the conduct of health services research.
Organization
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Faculty
The core faculty consists of
individuals who have contributed substantially to the CRHC mission, whether it be
through mentoring young investigators, conducting collaborative research, or designing
and engaging in formal educational activities for health services researchers. Members
of the core faculty are a diverse group of talented researchers and educators representing:
- The School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
- Center for Bioethics and Health Law
- Department of Critical Care Medicine
- Department of Emergency Medicine
- Department of Neurological Surgery
- Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Services
- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Psychiatry
- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine
- Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine
- The Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
- Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
- Department of Biostatistics
- Department of Health Policy and Management
- The Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Magee-Womens Hospital
- VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
- RAND Corporation
- H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University
The CRHC is able to offer its core faculty valuable resources and skills, including
the following: expertise in a wide variety of health services research; experienced
mentors; assistance and support for all facets of grant preparation, from study
design to proposal production; access to the
CRHC Data Center; the Health Services Research Seminar Series sponsored
by the CRHC, the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), and RAND;
the Research Development Seminar Series; organized dissemination of information
related to funding opportunities and health services research issues; access to
courses offered by the Institute
for Clinical Research Education (ICRE); use of the CRHC proposal
and IRB protocol review process; administrative assistance in hiring and supervising
staff; access to working groups and interest groups; and an annual lectureship on
medical safety and health care quality.
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Health Services Research Seminar Series (Sponsored by the CRHC,
CHERP, and RAND)
The Health Services Research (HSR) Seminar Series is a weekly series designed to
promote the integration and collaboration of health services researchers in the
Pittsburgh community.
Originally created by the CRHC in 1996 as a forum to discuss work in progress, to
plan methodology for new projects, and to refine presentations prior to national
meetings, the HSR Seminar Series has evolved into a vehicle for the polished and
professional presentation of results of completed research as well as the discussion
of methodological issues of interest to health services researchers. In 2002, the
VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP) became a cosponsor of
the seminar. The following year, RAND Health Pittsburgh also became a cosponsor.
In addition to the general sessions and in recognition of evolving special interests
of the CRHC's researchers over time, the seminar planners continue to identify specific
foci for selected seminars. Examples of these foci include mental health, women's
health, research and medical ethics, end-of-life care, aging, and health care disparities.
Since its inception, the seminar has involved speakers from the University of Pittsburgh
and Carnegie Mellon University, as well as speakers from the private sector and
other research organizations and universities, both national and international.
For example, speakers from Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, McMaster University
(Ontario), RAND, Westat, and Hospital Cochin (Paris) have presented work at the
seminar.
The HSR Seminar is held in Room 305 of the Parkvale Building every Tuesday from noon to 1:00 PM, from September through June.
For the schedule of upcoming seminars, please see the
CRHC / VA CHERP / RAND Seminar Series Calendar.
If you would like to be added to the distribution list for this series, click here.
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Research Development Seminar Series
In 1999, to meet the needs of our junior faculty and staff, the CRHC developed the
Research Development Seminar (RDS) Series. This series is designed to:
- Provide a forum for young researchers to present their ideas and plans for research
projects and to obtain feedback from faculty and other more experienced researchers.
- Teach young researchers fundamentals of grant proposal preparation, ways in which
to secure research funding, and how to conduct excellent research.
In addition to focusing on faculty presentations of works in development, sessions
have focused on the parts of a proposal, what goes on at a study section, game theory
approaches to grant writing, creating effective PowerPoint presentations, data management
in research, and how to respond to reviewers' comments.
For the schedule of upcoming seminars, please visit the Research Development Seminar Series Calendar.
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Sonis Lectureship
The Sonis Lectureship, cosponsored by the CRHC and the Department of Health Policy and Management (formerly the Health Services Administration) of the Graduate School of Public Health, honors Anne C. Sonis as a loving wife, mother, and grandmother and lauds her personal interest in and professional commitment to the ideal of ensuring every citizen the right to compassionate, high-quality health care.
We are looking forward to the next Sonis Lecture to be held Thursday, May 13, 2010. The lecture is at noon and will take place at S100A Biomedical Science Tower (BST).
Presented by:
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, PhD
Associate Director, RAND Health
Distinguished Chair in Health Quality
Senior Principal Researcher
The RAND Corporation
Santa Monica, California
Dr. McGlynn oversees strategic development, external dissemination, and communications of the results of the RAND Health research portfolio. She is an internationally known expert on methods for assessing and reporting on the quality and efficiency of health care delivery at the physician, medical group, hospital, health plan, regional, and national level. She is co-leading RAND Health's COMPARE initiative, which has developed a comprehensive framework and methods for evaluating a wide range of health policy proposals being considered at the federal and state level as well as by the private sector. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on a variety of national advisory committees. She is the vice chair of the board of AcademyHealth, the professional association for health services researchers. She is the vice chair of the board of Providence-Little Company of Mary Hospital Service Area in Southern California. She serves on the editorial boards for Health Services Research and Milbank Quarterly and is a reviewer for many leading journals.
Past presenters have included:
2009
Thomas Lee, MD
Network President
Partners Healthcare System, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts
"Chaos and Organization in Healthcare"
2008
Karen Davis, PhD
President
The Commonwealth Fund
New York, New York
"Health Care: Solutions without Borders"
2007
Carolyn M. Clancy, MD
Director, Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, Maryland
"Making Tomorrow's Vision Today's Reality: Improving Patient Safety through Value-Based Health Care"
2006
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, MSHA, FACP
Undersecretary for Health
Department of Veteran Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
Washington, DC
"Safe, Effective, Efficient, and Compassionate Health Care—Without
the Need for an Advocate"
2005
Stephen M. Shortell, PhD
Dean, School of Public Health
Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management
University of California, Berkeley
"What It Will Really Take to Improve Our Nation's Health System"
2003
Edward Wagner, MD, MPH
Director, W.A. MacColl Institute for Healthcare Innovation
Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle
"The Geology of the Quality Chasm"
2002
Wendy Levinson, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Money, Medicine, and the Physician-Patient Relationship"
2001
William M. Tierney, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Indiana University School of Medicine
Senior Research Scientist, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Indianapolis, Indiana
"Descent into Hell: Understanding Quality of Life in Cancer from the Researcher-Patient's
Perspective"
2000
David W. Bates, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of General Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
"Drug Safety: How Big a Problem? What Can Be Done?"
1999
Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD
Director, RAND Health Sciences Program
Santa Monica, California
"Quality of Health Care: Where Will It Be in the Next Century?"
1998
Stephen B. Soumerai, ScD, MSPH
Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
"Improving Physicians' Clinical Decisions: Art or Science?"
1997
Troyen E. Brennan, MD, JD
Professor of Medicine, Law, and Public Health
Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts
"Medical Injury, Malpractice Litigation, and the Cost of Health Care in the United
States"
For more information, contact the CRHC.
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Education and Training
The CRHC has a long-standing interest in training fellows and junior faculty in
the conduct of exemplary research. In 1999, with funding from the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ, formerly called the Agency for Care Policy and Research),
the CRHC, under the direction of Mark Roberts, MD, MPP, developed an innovative
training program in health services research. The overall goal of the program was
to create a rigorous but flexible training program that would enhance the conduct
of health services research. In addition to developing an intensive summer program
in biostatistics and quantitative methods, the Training Program in Clinical Effectiveness/Evaluation
Sciences developed courses in cost-effectiveness analysis, decision analysis, quality
improvement, large database analysis, and advanced biostatistics.
The Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) was developed in 2000, through a K30 grant
awarded by the National Institutes of Health. This innovative program brought together a multidisciplinary
consortium that included many of the schools of the health sciences and relevant
departments throughout the University of Pittsburgh, as well as research centers
dedicated to clinical and health services research.
The CRTP is now sponsored by the
Institute for Clinical Research Education (ICRE) at the University of Pittsburgh. For details about
ICRE degree-granting programs, click here.
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